Leeds Hospital - suspicious or coincidence?

Sir Bruce Keogh, the medical director of the NHS, is facing calls to resign following the suspension of children's congenital heart surgery at Leeds General Infirmary, a day after the High Court quashed plans to close the unit.

Researching:
I am researching the Wotherspoon family from the Old/New Monkland areas of Scotland, some moved to the Leslie and Kelty areas of Fife and I'm having problems linking the Wotherspoon's from Leslie and the Wotherspoon's from Kelty. I am also researching the Clusker family from Co. Meath in Ireland who moved to West Lothian and from there to Fife............"Vita non est vivere sed valere vita est"

Coincidence that the Medical Director of the NHS acted the day after he lost the court case. If there were problems, why had they not been acted on before, I cannot believe the problems just appeared overnight :-|

Coincidence also that the Medical Director of the NHS decided to disappear off abroad very quickly after he made the decision :-|

Coincidence that the decision conveniently coincides with a Bank Holiday and while the House of Commons is in recess. That means that the Secretary of State for Health cannot be summoned to the House of Commons to explain, in his usual shambolic manner, the reasons for the decision :-|

To many coincidences in my opinion :-|:-|:-|

Researching:
I am researching the Wotherspoon family from the Old/New Monkland areas of Scotland, some moved to the Leslie and Kelty areas of Fife and I'm having problems linking the Wotherspoon's from Leslie and the Wotherspoon's from Kelty. I am also researching the Clusker family from Co. Meath in Ireland who moved to West Lothian and from there to Fife............"Vita non est vivere sed valere vita est"

Yes, good thread this one. I thought it was extremely fishy the moment they announced it.

Often happens, but not quite as obviously blatant coincidence as this one. We should not be moving people with heart conditions (particularly the old and young) these huge distances for surgery. Most of the consultants have vehicles or access to public transport.

But the NHS is about consultants and management, and is not concentrated on customer care (can be more cynical than you, OFG)

To add to the coincidences surrounding the Medical Director of the NHS's decision, it is now being reported that the accuracy of the mortality figures is being questioned and the release of the data has concerned the head of the group which is still analysing the figures.

Dr John Gibbs, the chairman of Central Cardiac Database, which supplied the figures, described them as work in progress. He also said they have not even got the data statistically analysed yet, and he suggested it rings of politics rather than proper process :-|

Researching:
I am researching the Wotherspoon family from the Old/New Monkland areas of Scotland, some moved to the Leslie and Kelty areas of Fife and I'm having problems linking the Wotherspoon's from Leslie and the Wotherspoon's from Kelty. I am also researching the Clusker family from Co. Meath in Ireland who moved to West Lothian and from there to Fife............"Vita non est vivere sed valere vita est"

Someone in this sorry saga is being economical with the truth, do they not realise it is children's lives that are at stake here :-|

Cardiologist Elspeth Brown said the data did not include all the operations, and that staff were confident in their clinical work.

Ms Brown told the BBC that, since the announcement, she and colleagues had been examining the data that was used to make the decision.

She said "We do now know that the figures that were presented were simply wrong, they were incomplete, did not include all the operations in Leeds, and that they had then been subject to some statistical analysis which generated this headline figure. We need people to stop attacking us, and we need to resume surgery as soon as possible."

Researching:
I am researching the Wotherspoon family from the Old/New Monkland areas of Scotland, some moved to the Leslie and Kelty areas of Fife and I'm having problems linking the Wotherspoon's from Leslie and the Wotherspoon's from Kelty. I am also researching the Clusker family from Co. Meath in Ireland who moved to West Lothian and from there to Fife............"Vita non est vivere sed valere vita est"

Children's heart surgery is set to resume at Leeds General Infirmary within days, a week after concerns were raised about death rates at the unit.

So what happened to bring about this U-Turn :-S

Researching:
I am researching the Wotherspoon family from the Old/New Monkland areas of Scotland, some moved to the Leslie and Kelty areas of Fife and I'm having problems linking the Wotherspoon's from Leslie and the Wotherspoon's from Kelty. I am also researching the Clusker family from Co. Meath in Ireland who moved to West Lothian and from there to Fife............"Vita non est vivere sed valere vita est"